A saying we came up with at work one day

[draggar]

While discussing some things that have gone on at work, I came up with an interesting line,

The knives in my back are the rungs in someone else's ladder.

It's sad but true in many work places.

[Javarod]

Where's the like button?

[Food Lady]

And I want to like Javarod's post!

[MoonCat]

VERY good!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I just thought up my own slogan:

This place is a zoo. Who's getting tossed in the tiger pit today?

[blas]

As said to my trainee this week:

"Call in as much as you want, be as lazy and worthless as you can, hell, start a fire or two, but if you cause this place to fail an external audit, they'll gut you alive!"

[Lace Neil Singer]

At my place, the saying is: "If it makes sense, it's not allowed!"

[KuariKaydrith]

Lace, that is one I've been saying for ages!

At one workplace, after noticing a particular pattern in certain people getting promoted, I burst out with "It's not who you know, but who you blow!" Which was rather prophetic after finding one of the supervisors under the desk of the service delivery manager for the contract...I couldn't figure out why I would be hearing certain, um, sounds at the end of the day when everybody buy myself had gone home (I was going around to make sure all the computers were properly locked).

[protege]

At my place... "If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport."

[notalwaysright]

I've been watching DS9 lately, and this seemed relevant... Oh god, I'm a dork.

Rule of Acquisition # 211: Employees are rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.

[Kanalah]

You're not a dork. I often say to people who ask that mom and Gma just don't have the lobes for business.

[cindybubbles]

Be careful of whom you step on when climbing the corporate ladder to success. You never know who you'll meet on the way back down.

[wolfie]

Cindy, I've heard a variant of that:

The toes you step on on your way up the corporate ladder may be connected to the ass you need to kiss on your way down.

I recently saw a cartoon of birds perching, comparing them to corporate structure: Those at the top looking down see shit. Those at the bottom looking up see assholes.